Registrations and Title Rectifications

Not all land is registered. If a piece of land has been in the family for years and never sold or mortgaged, there may be no record of it at HM Land Registry at all, just the old deeds in a drawer. That tends to be fine until you come to sell it or pass it on, when a registered title makes everything a good deal simpler.

We prepare and submit first registrations to HM Land Registry regularly, since so many of the people we act for own or occupy rural land. If your title paperwork is unclear, or the deeds have gone missing altogether, we can help you build an application from what you do have, your own knowledge of the land and whatever evidence of ownership exists, and work with the Land Registry to get it registered in the right name.

We also help where the boundaries on paper don’t match what’s actually on the ground, sorting out the title so the record reflects reality.

A registered title is one less thing to untangle when the land next changes hands.